Environment & Energy
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Long-term the oceans have been gaining heat at a rate equivalent to about 2 Hiroshima bombs per second, although this has increased over the last 16 or so years to around 4 per second. In 2013 ocean warming rapidly escalated, rising to a rate in excess of 12 Hiroshima bombs per second - over three times the recent trend.
As the article clearly points out though, the yearly warming rate is somewhat variable. So don't worry, be happy.
phantom power
(25,966 posts)procon
(15,805 posts)GliderGuider
(21,088 posts)we don't have a snowball's chance in hell.
FBaggins
(26,732 posts)Yeah... that's the ticket.
Systematic Chaos
(8,601 posts)Now again, my math might be way off here.
But, assuming that the area of the Pacific Ocean is 63,800,000 square miles and there are 12 Hiroshimas per second (!!), this means that it would take about 5,316,667 seconds to cover the entire Pacific Ocean with Hiroshima detonations, one per square mile!!. Going further, you divide that result by 60 and you get 88,611 minutes, divide by 60 yet again and you are left with about 1,477 hours to drop a Hiroshima-sized nuclear bomb upon every square mile of the Pacific!
Finally, we divide that by 24 to get approximately just 61.5 days. And that just happens to fit nearly perfectly into 365 days per year six times!
That is, we can carpet the entire fucking Pacific Ocean, from top to bottom, with Hiroshima explosions, going at the rate of one per second, six times every year.
Again, my math may be wrong, but I don't think so. And if I'm right, just imagine that insane amount of heat being injected into that huge body of water, not just one time per year, but six!! I can't quite comprehend it. It's just too much.
Now, what happens when the Pacific gets tired of the bullshit and vomits all of that heat back into the atmosphere? You probably can't imagine how warm it's really going to get wherever you are.
GliderGuider
(21,088 posts)On average we bomb every square mile of the entire planet twice a year....
Systematic Chaos
(8,601 posts)eppur_se_muova
(36,261 posts)... will be released as cyclones. Problem solved.